Peter's Digital Reference Shelf - November 2001

[Lois Kiehl]

Subject: Peter's Digital Reference Shelf - November 2001

The November 2001 edition of Peter's Digital Reference Shelf is now
available on the Gale Group website. This month Peter reviews:
1) the CD-ROM version of _Ulrich's International Periodicals_ database,
pointing out the voluminous errors of commission and omission in this
$850 stalwart resource and
2) _PubList _, the free subset of Ulrich's. Although it inherits the
problems of the original database, it does not offer features that may
otherwise cripple searches, e.g. searching by price, circulation, LC
classification codes which are only available/searchable in 20-50% of the
records.

These in-depth reviews are illustrated with dozens of screenshots and
provide a multi-linked virtual walk-through of the databases. They are
written by Peter Jacso, the 1998 recipient of the Louis Shores - Oryx
Press Award of the Reference and User Services Association for his
discerning database reviews. His column is available free of charge to all
users at:
        http://www.galegroup.com/reference/reference.htm

See the Archives for databases previously reviewed:

	Profusion
	the Cultural Profiles Project
	Columbia World of Quotations
	Yahoo! Reference
	Atomica 2.1
	DealTime.com
        Expedia
	Travelocity
        CyberAtlas
        Penguin New English Dictionary
        ADAM Medical Encyclopedia
        Comparative Religions on File
        Adflip
        Canadian Encyclopedia Online
        Awesome Library
        Librarian's Index to the Internet
        TechEncyclopedia
        Webster's Third New International Unabridged Dictionary
        Artcylopedia
        Sports Rules on File
        Nolo Law Dictionary
        Nolo Legal Encyclopedia
        CIA World Factbook 2000
        GuruNet reference suite
        InteliHealth version of the Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
        Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
        Nobel Prize List
        Zagat Survey
        Encyclopaedia of the Orient
        Bowker's Complete Video Directory
        Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
        Online Columbia Encyclopedia 2000 (6th edition)
        Cambridge Dictionary of American English
        Choice Reviews Online.
        Oxford English Dictionary Online.
        New Millennium Encyclopedia on CD-ROM
        Funk & Wagnalls Knowledge Center
        Biography Resource Center
        Biography.com
        Biographical Dictionary
        Amazon
        Barnes & Noble
        Borders
        Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe 2000 (CD-ROM)
        Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Deluxe 2000 (CD-ROM)
        Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia 2000 (CD-ROM)
        American Heritage Dictionary Deluxe
        Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
        WWWebster Dictionary
        Encarta World English Dictionary
        Encarta Africana 2000
        Britannica.com
        Grolier Multimedia Online Encyclopedia version 2
        Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
        InfoNation
        Encarta Interactive World Atlas 2000

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